At the European Parliament, preparatory work has officially begun to trace the future lines on the biodiversity strategy through a motion for a resolution presented by the rapporteur Cesar Luena. Within the Committee on the Environment and Public Health, MEPs interacted at length in order to support a series of proposals on the points presented in the resolution to be presented to the EU Commission. The person in charge of the dossier for the ID-Lega group also spoke during the session Marco Dreosto, who wanted to highlight a number of issues, starting with the supporting role that the agricultural, hunting and fishing world and other stakeholders will be able to offer in achieving the objectives of the strategy.
"The new strategy must not become a penalizing tool for the categories involved, farmers must be supported if we want their contribution in the restoration of agricultural areas, as well as hunters, environment sentinels for wildlife and useful operators to be fully involved in the management of habitats and in the control of invasive alien species. " Dreosto defines the proposal to significantly increase strictly protected areas as unreasonable, asking that the direct management of the same be defined by the Member States.
"Europe cannot impose its own management rigor by undermining the principle of subsidiarity, for which local authorities have an essential role to play since their proximity to the communities would allow them to take right decisions taking into account the regional, environmental, socio-economic and cultural elements of the individual territories. " The Friulian deputy therefore proposes the method already used in the Natura 2000 network, suggesting a similar approach for strictly protected areas, giving power to local authorities to decide which activities to allow or prohibit, in line with the specific conservation objectives of the site in question.